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The Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency (ITPC) was created in 2000 to address high tobacco use rates. This independent state agency, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, administered a comprehensive program that supported community health coalitions and evidence-based public policy changes.

Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen

The endocrine system consists of specialized groups of cells called glands that make, store, and release regulating chemicals called hormones directly into the bloodstream to regulate how the body functions. Some of these endocrine glands include the adrenals, chemoreceptor organs, gonads (testis and ovary), hypothalamus, pancreatic islets, parathyroid, pineal, pituitary, and thyroid. These glands secrete hormones that travel through the circulatory system to regulate the various body systems.

The hepatic system includes the liver and biliary tract . The liver maintains stable conditions throughout the body. It plays an important role in digesting food (through the secretion of bile), in synthesizing proteins (albumin, carrier proteins, coagulation factors, and many hormonal and growth factors), and in detoxifying harmful substances.

The skeleton (which includes bones, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage) and muscles that are attached to it make up the musculoskeletal system. It gives the body its basic structure, posture, and the ability to move. In addition to the basic structural role , the larger bones in the body contain bone marrow, where blood cells are formed.

The nervous system receives and sends signals throughout the body to control bodily functions. The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nervous system (nerve fibers that attach to and lie outside the brain and spinal cord). The nervous system has two components, motor (efferent) and sensory (afferent), that carry information from and to, respectively, the central nervous system.

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Efficacy trials have shown that primary care co-located in the mental health setting improves the receipt of high-quality medical care among people with serious mental illness.

CDC partners in South Africa with government and parastatal agencies, private institutions, universities and non-governmental organizations to improve the country’s public health foundation, to prevent transmission of HIV, to provide care and treatment for those who are already infected with HIV, and to strengthen laboratory capacity.

CDC partners in South Africa with government and parastatal agencies, private institutions, universities and non-governmental organizations to improve the country’s public health foundation, to prevent transmission of HIV, to provide care and treatment for those who are already infected with HIV, and to strengthen laboratory capacity.

CDC partners in South Africa with government and parastatal agencies, private institutions, universities and non-governmental organizations to improve the country’s public health foundation, to prevent transmission of HIV, to provide care and treatment for those who are already infected with HIV, and to strengthen laboratory capacity.

CDC partners in South Africa with government and parastatal agencies, private institutions, universities and non-governmental organizations to improve the country’s public health foundation, to prevent transmission of HIV, to provide care and treatment for those who are already infected with HIV, and to strengthen laboratory capacity.

In Kenya, the CDC is addressing the region's toughest health problems at their source, directly working with vulnerable families and communities in local hospitals, clinics, and laboratories.